Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 2 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 3 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 4 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 5 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 6 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 7 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 8 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 9 | Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed . |
| 10 | She felt as if a hard , heavy fist had thumped her in the stomach . |
| 11 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 12 | She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said . |
| 13 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 14 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 15 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 16 | Unless she felt it because her dismissal from that job had deprived her of the sight and sound of Luke Scott ? |
| 17 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
| 18 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 19 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 20 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 21 | Rune had brought her to the home he 'd shared with Lotta for — how long ? |
| 22 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 23 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |
| 24 | She gasped , just as if the water had hit her in the chest . |
| 25 | In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips . |
| 26 | The initiative was taken by Helen Crawfurd , a militant suffragette and socialist whose involvement in the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike had awakened her to the possibilities of resistance by working-class women . |
| 27 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 28 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 29 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |
| 30 | After Mr Bush had told her of the US military action by telephone at 7am , an hour after his troops moved in , Mrs Thatcher told reporters : ‘ I believe he was right to do so . |